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Saturday, 31 March 2012

It was Aamir's first sight of the real thing... people dancing to Motown and Northern Soul at Colne Muni.

We got a superb view of some amazing old school dancers with some absolutely fantastic moves from the era of Wigan casino etc.

It was lovely to see Wendy and her husband Roman (a top DJ) who later played 'Beggin' by Timebox for Aamir, what a nice surprise. We even had our photo's taken by Wendys friend, who is also a great dancer.

Everyone had a brilliant time and now that Aamir has seen how it should be done, he promises to have a go next time... and who knows, perhaps I will too.

We have had the privilege of Bert (an artist from Texas) staying in Pendle to scope out a project in summer. She was most impressed by the beautiful countryside and just how big the area is. She stayed in Foulridge so had the pleasure of the bus journey through Colne and Nelson on her way to Brierfield.

She already had some ideas about her project before she arrived and is going back to Houston and Project Row Houses with lots of fresh information about our area and how it can inform her ideas.

Thanks for being a great guest Bert and we hope to see you and the rest of the gang from Project Row Houses very soon.

Saturday, 3 March 2012

I played some classic Northern Soul tracks for Aamir and the group to listen to at NYC. I remember hearing 'Needle in a Haystack' for the first time over 30 years ago at the same venue, although back then it was in the single storey prefab building.

Today we are listening to it in a purpose built dance studio on the very same site and the young people love it all the same.

Aamir kindly put his birthday celebrations on hold to chat to me about the similarities between current dance floor moves and 'old-school' manoeuvres.